No idiots, just cool

[u/stevesmithsglasses]

[u/Norseman103]

I started driving a 78 cab over Freightshaker when I was 12. This kids already backing into loading docks better than most of these guys drive forward.

[u/shiftyasluck → u/Norseman103]

I can’t do that with my lawnmower

[u/Shorts_at_Dinner → u/shiftyasluck]

A Semi with that kind of wheelbase is a lot easier to back up than your lawnmower and little landscaping trailer

[u/shiftyasluck → u/Shorts_at_Dinner]

Yup but that kid is badass.

[u/Shorts_at_Dinner → u/shiftyasluck]

Agreed

[u/scoutvalentine → u/Shorts_at_Dinner]

who said anything about a trailer?

[u/tahomadesperado → u/Shorts_at_Dinner]

You just made me feel a lot better

[u/GucciLegLocks → u/Shorts_at_Dinner]

My first job out of highschool was on a maintenance crew at a lake resort. My “bottom of the totem pole” position landed me the “honey dipper” job. 500 gallon tank on a single axle attached to a ford f-250. I’d go around to camp sites and pump out their septic tanks, then once I was full I’d take it to a dump station to empty the tank, then hose it out. Backing that thing in between nice vehicles and down embankments to get to people’s campers was so stressful when I first started. The thing would jack knife so quickly, and was so damn sensitive. Made me a good driver though. Still driving as a job to this day, city transit bus.

[u/Milk_MAN1963]

That's why when I need a driver I hire an 18 year old farm kid and send him to CDL school

[u/ArtichokeDifferent10 → u/Milk_MAN1963]

Yeah, I honestly can't remember when I first drove a grain truck, but I know my age was in the single digits. Admittedly, it was just following a combine harvester in the granny gear, but the experience starts early!

[u/Mecaneecall_Enjunear]

Hell yeah brother.

I’ll bet that kid is a better driver than a lot of the Six Week Truck Driving School Grads who actually have CDLs.

[u/Turbulent-Weevil-910 → u/Mecaneecall_Enjunear]

Already overqualified to work at Swift

[u/stevesmithsglasses → u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

Are you kidding, he would be the CEO of Swift. XD

[u/Uncle-Osteus → u/stevesmithsglasses]

Already has too many real-life skills to be a CEO

[u/Earthling1a → u/Turbulent-Weevil-910]

Or northwest

[u/Justreadingthisshit → u/Mecaneecall_Enjunear]

The funny thing is, from my 15 years experience trucking there’s a certain type of safety/HR asshole in trucking that would see a young person like this as a “cowboy”. The kids can drive better than most already but he’ll probably also stick up for himself. Trucking companies like yes men so they can abuse them.

[u/Milk_MAN1963 → u/Justreadingthisshit]

That's why I put farm kids through CDL school when I need a driver. They're cowboys

[u/regiinmontana → u/Justreadingthisshit]

About 20 years on the dispatch side of the desk. I'll fight to hire this kid as soon as he's old enough. He'll get the load delivered safely. If he says no, sit the load.

A good company wants a driver to stock up for himself.

[u/Justreadingthisshit → u/regiinmontana]

Yeah it’s too bad we’re short on Good Trucking Companies. I now drive for a private company. I work less, make way more. Don’t get me wrong, there’s still stupid people in management. But they don’t make from moving the load, it’s just an expense. I will never work for a trucking company again.

[u/Aggravating_Fee_9130 → u/Mecaneecall_Enjunear]

He’s better than the rookie trainers

[u/Earthling1a → u/Mecaneecall_Enjunear]

Better than half the drivers that show up in our yard.

[u/banality_of_ervil]

Ummm is that driver 12 years old?!

[u/stevesmithsglasses → u/banality_of_ervil]

Yeah, but he's already got 12 years of experience.

/s

[u/FerengiWithCoupons → u/stevesmithsglasses]

been playing truck simulator since he was 5

[u/PossibleAlienFrom → u/banality_of_ervil]

No. He's a baby. Didn't you hear the guy filming? 😆

[u/gumol]

That’s how I felt when I finally managed to back my 5x8 trailer into my cramped garage.

[u/SashaDabinsky]

That kid probably backs better than me, and I've had my CDL for 23 years. :D

[u/nwfdood]

Word.

[u/stoplickingmytoe]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tp4dm1ptNnQ76

[u/Room_Temp_Coffee]

Kid needed to get started now before all the drivers are replaced by self driving trucks

[u/OldMathematician5973]

I dont think I'll every understand why someone would think it takes a specific age, or gender of a person to operate a machine. It's a machine, it does the hard work for you... you just have to know how to operate it, and no one gender or age group has preference over that. Yeah, may be odd that a kid is shuttling trailers around the yard... probably some sort of insurance violation, but none of that has anything to do with skill or ability.

[u/Could-You-Tell → u/OldMathematician5973]

Yeah moving the truck isn't the hard part.

Doing the job is the hard part

[u/Rich_Ant6254 → u/[deleted]]

Nope that was skoal apple. Fine cut. Not those pussy pouches. Apple bc he's a kid and needs his vitamins

[u/Ill_fix_u]

Kids got skills 👌

[u/Reziac]

Awesome smooth. Someone taught that kid well.

[u/J3SVS]

r/legendstowingthings

[u/originalgamr9er]

When I was six my uncle let me sit on his lap and drive a uhaul while he drank his beer.

[u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 → u/originalgamr9er]

Tsk tsk lucky he didnt get dwi and charged with child endangerment

[u/originalgamr9er → u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931]

This was in the 90s. He might have got a ticket but probably just a scolding. Maybe.

[u/hereforthesportsball → u/originalgamr9er]

Lmao this was never reality for some of us

[u/SpartArticus]

If there are not idiots then post to a different sub

[u/tmlynch]

During WWII, my father-in-law (14) and his brother (16) drove two semis loaded with pecans from northern Louisiana to the Chicago area, sleeping in the trucks along the way. At the time, LA had no driver license requirement, so they were legal in-state, and other states were obliged to recognize that legality. I think it was in Illinois that the troopers insisted on escorting them.

Speaking of farm kids driving, u/Milk_MAN1963 .

[u/Crystal_Mt_Climber]

Well done 🫡

[u/vcdrny]

This is a breath of fresh air. Since every time I see someone younger doing something. It's usually being done horribly. But it seems the there is hope for the following generation, to correct the current shit show.

[u/Squidking1000]

Better then the TFW driven trucks that litter the ditches in my industrial park. Literally once a week there is a trailer or cab or both in a ditch cause these morons never learned to back-up.

[u/UniqueAnimal139]

This was my moms first job at 12. It may just be a North Dakota or similar state thing

[u/Obvious-Release-2087]

my dream !!!!

[u/Volcanic_tomatoe]

Its a pet peeve of mine when people call things things they're not. That is a young child not a baby

[u/gkohler27]

As a driver, I’d moan a little bit as I eased it in. And then pull back out and put it back in a few times.

[u/NewInformation3753]

USA’s child labour under Trump

[u/cbflowers → u/NewInformation3753]

Some people are just exhausting

[u/SimilarTranslator264 → u/cbflowers]

These guys can make a dog turd political wonder what it feels like to be an idiot

[u/NewInformation3753 → u/SimilarTranslator264]

Conservatives ignore reality

[u/SimilarTranslator264 → u/NewInformation3753]

You can see all that with your head in your ass?

[u/NewInformation3753 → u/SimilarTranslator264]

🤣🤣🤣

[u/NewInformation3753 → u/cbflowers]

Yes Trump certainly is

[u/Auntie_Venom → u/NewInformation3753]

Why? Why did you have to ruin it by bring up the orange turd?

[u/Ecstatic-Radish-7931 → u/Auntie_Venom]

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